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Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ⓘ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners. In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.
Lan (𡳞 or Chinese: 𨶙; Jyutping: lan2), more commonly idiomatically written as 撚 lan, is another vulgar word that means penis. [1] Similar to gau, this word is also usually used as an adverb. lan yeung (𡳞樣 or 撚樣) can be loosely translated as "dickface". [7] Euphemisms includes 懶 laan (lazy) or 能 nang (able to).
The Traditional Chinese characters for the word huài dàn (坏蛋/壞蛋), a Mandarin Chinese profanity meaning, literally, "bad egg" Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human.
These euphemisms are also used as verbs. For example, instead of saying something has been censored, one might say "it has been harmonized" (Chinese: 被和谐了) or "it has been river-crabbed" (Chinese: 被河蟹了). The widespread use of "river crab" by Chinese netizens represents a sarcastic defiance against official discourse and censorship.
Ching chong, ching chang chong, and chung ching are ethnic slurs used to mock or imitate the Chinese language, people of Chinese ancestry, or other people of East Asian descent perceived to be Chinese. The term is a derogatory imitation of Mandarin and Cantonese phonology. [1]
classifier for scheduled transport services (trains 火車 / 火车, bus 公交, subway 地鐵 / 地铁, etc.); group of people; class as in pupils 學生 / 学生: 幫: 帮: bāng bong1: bong1 group of people (children 孩子, friends 朋友, etc.); "gang", band of (bandits 匪徒, bad men 壞蛋 / 坏蛋, etc.) 包: bāo baau1: baau1
Triad language is a type of Cantonese slang. It is censored out of television and films. Kingsley Bolton and Christopher Hutton, the authors of "Bad Boys and Bad Language: Chòu háu and the Sociolinguistics of Swear Words in Cantonese," said that regardless of official discouragement of the use of triad language, "[T]riad language or triad-associated language is an important source of ...
Chinaman (/ ˈ tʃ aɪ n ə. m ə n /) is a term referring to a Chinese man or person, or widely a person native to geographical East Asia or of perceived East Asian ethnicity. The term is noted as having pejorative overtones by modern dictionaries.